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W.Woolf

Woolf (Virginia), English writer (London 1882-Lewes, Sussex, 1941). She was Sir Leslie Stephen daughter, one of the most important figures of Britain Literature during XIX c. Since she was a child, she was in contact with her father´s friends :G.Meredith, Th.Hardy and after, when her father died she lived in the Bloomsbury district in London and it started to instale in her house lots of intellectuals which formed "The Bloomsbury Group": E.M. Forster, L.Strachey, R. Fry, J.M. Keynes. After publishing her first novel "The voyage out", 1915, she and her husband (The economist Leonard Woolf) the editorial Hogarth Press, which showed to the public authors, such as Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Her second novel "The night and day", 1919 was not very succesful but the volume of short stories "Monday or Tuesday", 1921 had a good acceptance by the critics. A few years after her originality was shown in the three novels that made her a celebrity "Jacob´s room", 1922, "Mrs Dalloway", 1925 and "To the Lighthouse", 1927, narrations in which the action and the intrigue have disappeared and the most important thing is the changeable life and the colour of the universe. After she published "Orlando" 1928, "The waves", 1931, "The years", 1937 and "Between the acts", 1941. She gave a lot of importance to the delicate art and refined. Her main essays of literary criticism, which contributed very original ideas about the classics. She published "Flush", 1933, an study about Roger Fry, 1940 and works defending women rights "Three guineas", 1938. The twentieth of March of 1941, she disappeared of her house and on the Thirtieth was found drowned, probably she killed herself. In 1976 appeared an autobiography, one of the most important works of the Woolf world.